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...Never has so much been paid by so many to so few," said Britain's Daily Mirror after the government announced it would buy WINSTON CHURCHILL'S papers from his heirs for $20 million. The sum (paid for mostly by proceeds from the national lottery) appalled some historians and politicans, who claimed the 1.5 million documents-which include Churchill's letters to his mother, an American, and drafts of his famous speeches-are public property...
Berman, with the help of his agent Barbara Zitwer, sold the novel for a six-figure sum to Larry Kirshbaum, the president of Warner Books, at the Frankfurt Book fair in Germany, according to a press release...
...footage of his actors later to advance the plot, Van Peebles jeopardizes his credibility as an historian. Already treading a tightrope between fiction and reality, this method of "historicizing fiction" puts the viewer on guard. Although the fictional documentary footage is noncontroversial and works well as a device to sum up Panther activities, its contribution to the effect of a documentary is somewhat duplicitous...
...where, though? Stay tuned, said Dole. "We'll flesh things out as we go along." Says the candidate's chief strategist, Bill Lacey: "Our only vulnerability would be if we don't have a viable message." It may be that the sum of Dole's rhetoric never coheres into a concrete plan of action; yet setting a tone is the requisite beginning of a "viable message," and that's what Dole was about last week...
Gaxiola lives vigorously and with all the defiantly independent spirit of the cowboy. With the example of his extraordinary life backing up his attitude, the whole takes on rather more than the sum of its parts. The Maestro bright paint stands out against the muddied horizon of the conventional art world with a surprising vigor...